Browsing by Subject "Leishmaniasis"
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Análisis de la estructura primaria y secundaria del ARN de transferencia mitocondrial para serina en siete especies de Lutzomyia.
(Bogotá, Colombia: Revista Biomédica, 2007., 2019-10-21)Lutzomyia sand flies are involved in the transmission of the parasite Leishmania spp. in America. The taxonomy of these vectors is traditionally based on morphological features of the adult stage, particularly the paired ... -
Cambios en el extremo carboxilo terminal de citocromo b como carácter taxonómico en Lutzomyia (Diptera: Psychodidae).
(Bogotá, Colombia : Revista Colombiana de Entomología, 2009., 2019-10-16)Morphological characters have been traditionally used for identification of sand flies of the genus Lutzomyia; however, their utility is limited in some species. In this work, we characterized the mitochondrial DNA region ... -
Detección de anticuerpos anti-leishmania (trypanosomatidae) en poblaciones caninas del departamento de Sucre, Colombia.
(Bogotá, Colombia: Acta biológica Colombiana, 2016., 2019-10-01)The aim of this survey was to determine prevalence of antibodies against Leishmania in dogs from Sucre, Colombia. We analyzed 122 dogs in rural areas from municipalities of Sampués, Ovejas and Sincelejo, by indirect ... -
Detección de Leishmania spp. (Kinetoplastea: trypanosomatidae) en flebotomíneos (Diptera: psychodidae) asociados a la aparición del primer caso de leishmaniasis visceral en la vereda Toro, San Cayetano, Bolívar
(Sincelejo : Universidad de Sucre 2017Facultad Educación y CienciasBiología, 2018)En la Costa Caribe Colombiana, la leishmaniasis visceral (LV) constituye un importante problema de Salud Pública, tradicionalmente los casos de esta enfermedad se restringían a municipios particulares del macrofoco de Los ... -
Dosis diagnóstica y umbral de resistencia de Lutzomyia evansi (Diptera: Psychodidae), a dos insecticidas utilizados en salud pública en Colombia: deltametrina y lambdacihalotrina.
(Buenos Aires, Argentina: Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina, 2009., 2019-10-15)Insecticides are an important tool for controlling insect vectors of microorganism pathogens. The aim of this study was to determine the diagnostic dosages of deltamethrin and lambdacyhalothrin for the sand fly Lutzomyia ... -
Estimación del tiempo de desarrollo de Lutzomyia evansi bajo condiciones experimentales.
(Barranquilla, Colombia: Salud Uninorte, 2012., 2019-10-08)The objective of this research was to estimate the average development time of Lu. evansi, based on a laboratory colony composed of phlebotomineans from an urban area. -
Estimación del tiempo límite de detección del gen citocromo b de humanos en hembras de Lutzomyia evansi.
(Bogotá, Colombia : Revista biomédica, 2017., 2019-09-25)Molecular biology techniques have allowed a better knowledge of sources of blood meals in vector insects. However, the usefulness of these techniques depends on both the quantity of ingested blood and the digestion process ... -
Estudio de los flebotomíneos (Diptera: Psychodidae) antropofílicos de la Serranía de La Macarena, Colombia.
(Bogotá, Colombia: Revista Colombiana de Entomología, 2006., 2019-10-24)A preliminary survey of the anthropophilic sand fly fauna of the Serranía de La Macarena, Colombia, is presented. Although leishmaniasis is endemic in the region, the vectors of the disease are yet unknown. Insects were ... -
Evidence for anthropophily in five species of phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) from northern Colombia, revealed by molecular identification of bloodmeals.
(Reino Unido: Acta Tropica, 2015., 2019-11-06)Identification of the bloodmeal sources of phlebotomine sand flies is fundamental to determining which species are anthropophilic and understanding the transmission of Leishmania parasites in natural epidemiological settings. ... -
Flebotominos adultos e inmaduros (Diptera: Psychodidae): registros para el Caribe Colombiano.
(Estado Aragua, Venezuela: Boletín de Malariología y Salud Ambiental, 2013., 2019-10-03)Elaborating an inventory for Lutzomyia spp., without considering the immature forms of such insects, gives only a partial information about the species. Investigating immature phlebotomines represents a challenge and urgency ... -
Identificación de Leishmania chagasi en canis familiaris en un foco de los Montes de María
(Facultad Educación y CienciasBiología, 2003)La leishmaniasis es una antropozoonosis que resulta del parasitismo de los macrófagos por un protozoario del género Lei"shmani"a; esta enfermedad es endémica en 88 países alrededor del mundo. La leishmaniasis visceral es ... -
Lutzomyia abonneci y Lutzomyia olmeca bicolor (Diptera: Psychodidae), nuevos registros para el departamento de Sucre, Colombia.
(Bogotá, Colombia: Acta Biológica Colombiana , 2013., 2019-10-03)Among Colombia’s Caribbean coast departments, Sucre has the greatest species diversity of phlebotomine sand flies (genus Lutzomyia), including several associated with the epidemiological cycles of cutaneous and visceral ... -
Nuevos hallazgos de flebotomíneos (Diptera: Psychodidae) en la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia.
(Bogotá, Colombia: Acta Biológica Colombiana , 2015., 2019-10-02)Phlebotomine sand flies, vectors of leishmaniasis, have not been well studied in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, and likewise, are not well known in other regions of the Department of Magdalena, Colombia. To date only ... -
Nuevos registros de flebotomíneos (Diptera: Psychodidae) en el área de influencia del río Amoyá en Chaparral, Tolima.
(Bogotá, Colombia: Revista Biomédica, 2012., 2019-10-04)In Colombia, the diversity of phlebotomine sand flies is high, with 162 recorded species, and which include vectors of Leishmania spp. The objective of this research is to identify the the sand fly species of medically ... -
Nuevos registros de flebotomíneos (Diptera: Psychodidae), con el hallazgo de Lutzomyia longipalpis (Lutz & Neiva, 1912), en los alrededores de la Ciudad de Sincelejo, Colombia.
(São Paulo, Brasil:Biota Neotropica, 2009., 2019-10-11)This is the first report of Lutzomyia longipalpis (Lutz & Neiva, 1912), L. shannoni (Dyar, 1929), L. micropyga (Mangabeira, 1942) and L. atroclavata (Knab, 1913) in the surroundings of an urban settlement in ... -
Predicción de la estructura secundaria del tRNASer (UCN) mitocondrial del flebotomíneo Lutzomyia hartmani (Diptera: Psychodidae).
(Bogotá, Colombia: Acta Biológica Colombiana , 2011., 2019-10-09)Lutzomyia (Helcocyrtomyia) hartmanni is a sand fly that has been implicated in the transmission of Leishmania (Viannia) colombiensis, an etiologic agent of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Colombia. The objective of this work ... -
Presence of Lutzomyia evansi, a vector of American visceral leishmaniasis, in an urban area of the Colombian Caribbean coast.
(Londres, Reino Unido: Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene , 2001., 2019-10-31)American visceral leishmaniasis (AVL) is a potentially fatal disease of neotropical countries, chiefly affecting children aged under 5 years, caused by ~ishmania (Leishmanial &a& Cunha & Chapas. which is indisiinguishablk ... -
Primer hallazgo de Lutzomyia tihuiliensis (Diptera: Psychodidae) en el valle de Aburrá, Colombia.
(Bogotá, Colombia: Revista Biomédica, 2006., 2019-10-24)Three of the seven species that comprise the pia series of the Lutzomyia verrucarum group have been recorded in Colombia, including L. pia, L. limafalcaoae and L. emberai. Objective. The aim of this paper is to report the ... -
Primer registro del flebotomíneo Warileya (Hertigia) hertigi en Antioquia, Colombia.
(Bogotá, Colombia: Revista Biomédica, 2018., 2019-09-20)The genus Warileya is one of the least-known taxa of sandflies, comprising only nine species, i.e., W. (Warileya) phlebotomanica, W. (Hertigia) hertigi, W. (W.) rotundipennis, W. (W.) nigrosacculus, W. (W.) yungasi, W. ... -
Variación temporal de especies de Lutzomyia (Diptera: Psychodidae) en el área urbana de Sincelejo (Colombia).
(Barranquilla, Colombia: Salud Uninorte, 2012., 2019-10-08)Desde hace más de diez años se registran casos autóctonos de leishmaniasis cutánea y visceral de ocurrencia esporádica en Sincelejo, principalmente en barrios periféricos de esta ciudad, situación que ha estado acompañada ...